Originally Posted by DSJR
I think that when you work with the original instruments, acoustic or electronic, hearing the compressed and mixed up results that we buy must be a bit of a let down. I doubt that many want to have a studio monitoring setup at home, as it's a bit like watching Corrie on a huge cinema screen
Took me a minute to work out what you were getting at but agree 100%!
Closest approach in the home would therefore be 24/192 replay of the master through exactly the kit they used for studio replay - means having a different set up of kit for each album you play of course...
Production has to be horses for courses - you would not produce a Ska album the same way you would produce a rock power trio - although I have heard this done recently and the production just did not suit the Ska sound at all - both recordings very professional and polished, though.
Compare the production on, say, Guns and Roses 'use your illusion' to the latest - 'chinese democracy' - the first is rich, sweet, open, dynamic - the second compressed, stodgy, false sounding - terrible, in a nutshell - yet these are both digital recordings done 19 years apart. We should be hearing a lot better - we are actually getting a lot worse!
In the 'eighties I never understood productions of the likes of Martin Hammet - joy Division etc. - they all sounded so thin and weedy through radios and TVs. Now, through decent kit, they sound like a breath of fresh air.
Martin
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